Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.

The federal government allowed Camp Mystic, the all-girls summer camp along the Guadalupe River, to remove multiple buildings from government flood maps, even though private data suggests the flood threat remained, and was even worse than the government reported, according to documents and data NPR has reviewed.

A new Yahoo/YouGov survey finds that about twice as many U.S. adults say they would vote for a candidate with Mamdani's platform (50%) than say they would not (26%). Could it be a blueprint for Democrats elsewhere?

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Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel denies rumors of his resignation over frustration with the DOJ’s decision to close the Epstein investigation. The DOJ and FBI concluded there was no incriminating client list, no blackmail evidence, and no basis to reopen the case, despite pressure from MAGA hardliners like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon.

A prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140 million, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed Thursday.

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YouGov survey suggests majority support idea of Britain returning to bloc – but not on same terms it once enjoyed

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So, as expected, Auschwitz-like detention conditions. All Alligator Alcatraz is missing is the forced labor and the gas chambers.

Brøderbund might not have been among the most productive game publishers in the eighties and nineties, but you could bet any game they did publish was of a high quality. The American company released games like Lode Runner, Choplifter, Karateka, Prince of Persia, Wings of Fury, SimCity, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Myst, and with gems like these they had a big influence on computer and video games as a whole.

The combatant reportedly served as a company commander in Russia's 433rd Motorised Rifle Regiment.

Tough run, but at least the pending thunderstorms kept the sun away! Got the 10K done!

A newly mapped 7 km (4.3 miles) segment of the Concord Fault, now identified as the Madigan Avenue strand, has been confirmed as actively creeping beneath residential neighborhoods in Concord and Walnut Creek, California.

Three sites used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List.

Russia and Belarus intend to develop their own artificial intelligence model built on “traditional values” that would be “understandable” to citizens of both countries.

I think I blushed irl... Poor undead could'nt get to the end of that dialogue.

A year ago today a brave young American who valued their country more than their own life, committed a heroic act of rebellion in an attempt to save his country. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful, but where he failed, others will succeed

On July 12, Taiwan's military began deploying one of its newest and most precise strike weapons as part of intensifying drills meant to showcase the island's determination to resist any Chinese invasion.

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The family of a US-Palestinian man beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank called for a US State Department investigation into the killing on Saturday. Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat was attacked on Friday in the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

In today's Daft Code stream, @AleixPol and @sitter will talk about the latest KDE Goals Plasma Keyboard push, Kirigami, QML and other nifty things. They will be joined by @espidev. Join them live at 18:00 CEST on twitch.tv/daft_code

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Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and with a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

We spoke with Boulder Dash creator Peter Liepa about his classic action-/puzzle game.

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The Federal Council wants to explore the possibilities of joining the European Union’s €800-billion rearmament programme without compromising Swiss neutrality.

The Iranian Embassy in India has issued a warning about fraudulent social media accounts impersonating official Iranian entities. These fake accounts are disseminating false information, including claims about Iran reconsidering the Chabahar port agreement with India. The embassy asserts that these accounts aim to undermine the relationship between Iran and India.

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have carried out a special operation to eliminate the Russian agents who killed SSU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv under orders from the FSB.

Ukrainian firm TENETA introduces the MITLA, a lightweight anti-drone device designed to intercept enemy drones using a rapid-deploying net.

The Finnish word “sisu” entered the international lexicon as a byword for indomitable willpower. Or, as Jonathan Clements [Clements, author of A Short History of Finland] put it: “That huge Soviet army rolling across the border and the Finns just standing there and saying, ‘NOPE’.” Today, he says, Ukraine is a living example of sisu.

As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.

Even Barbie couldn’t save it.

A group of more than 60 Microsoft shareholders has filed a proposal that will be voted on at the company's next Annual General Meeting.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.

China wants to launch the world's first hyperloop within a decade.

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